The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-23
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FLANK MAYO comes back to the
Theatre for one night, November 9TH.
Ben Israel will be done on the 4th.
CHARLES A. BYRNE has written play,
aud half dozen managers are Offering
70 produce it. The play, by the way, is
the joint work of Mr.. Byrne and Arthur
WalIack.- Nttsic and Drama.
The Mouse Trap, in which Mr.. Abb
bey's new stock company opened Wal
lacks thester last week, is no gTeatsuc-
cess, Notwithstanding Osmond Tearle
and Rose COghlan we're in the cast.
ARCHIBALD JOHNSON, author of Baby
Mine " Flowers Frae Home" The
Roses ara Drinking the Dew" and
other popular songs, died in New York,
August 81, aged Sc. He was q horse
auCtioneer as well as musician.
ROBERT SroEPEL, the well-known
composer-husband of Matilda Heron
and father of Bijou Heron (noW Mrs.
Henry MilIer) died of apopexy IN New
York, on the 1st instant. He leaves
two finished operas. one Unita, the
other The MachI. The latter was writ
ten by Mr.. Knox, of the TeTGS SiJtjRgS.
AND so Lillian Russell has been for
given. James Duff has got over his
sulk, and in that little dove cot, at
least, all will reign happy and pleasant
in the futute. To put it according to
the announcements, Miss Russell has
consented to rejoin Mr.. Duff's com
pany, and Mr.. Diff has consented to
re-engage Miss Russell.
NyM CRINKLE speaks thus of Mrs.
Laugtry's death scene II Der new play:
Mrs. Langtry when she swallows her
dose begins Immediately to tear at her
bosom. But if she must be physiologic,
she ought to know that the corrosive
action is not in her breast, bat in her
She reminds me of that
anna eur lady who, when she says,
Great Heavens my heart is breaking
always lays her hand on her marble
brow. An action that always struck
me as being peculiarly devoid of local
color
York yesterday of lively interest to the |
world of society and of amusement |
Mrs. James Brown Potter came with q |
wealth of beautiful new dresses; Signor |
Italo Campanini came with the score of |
Verdi's Otello and the assurance of a |
speedy Italian opera, and Mr.. Charles |
Dickens came with the promise of fol- |
lowing in the steps of his famous sire as
a reader if not as story teller.
AS Hamlet says of the players, they |
are all welcome. We shall be glad to |
see and record Mrs. Potter's progress in
her art, we shall be glad to hear a
genuine Italian opera with genuine |
Italian voices once more, and, if only |
for the sake of his father, of whom the |
Herald furnished such copious and |
graphic accounts during his two visits
here in 1882 and 1878, our greeting is |
as hearty to Mr.. Dickens.-New York |
Herald.
Erminie's rival in popularity, Alfred |
Celller's Dorothy, which has been run
ming in London for over a year, is to be
seen for the first time in this citv on
November 7th, at the Standard Theatre. |
Mr.. B. G. Stephenson, who is the author
Of the hbretto, calls Dorothy q
comedy" opera. Mr.. Duff, who OBJ
tanned the rights to the piece while
abroad during the summer, promises to
put it on in most brilliant style. Miss
Lillian Russell is to play Doro thy de-
spite all the paragraphs to the effect
that she was too high priced for comic
opera. Miss Agnes Stone, Miss Rose
Leighton and Mr.. Duf's newest stsr,
after is q young American, vino has
oeen for some time upon the French
opera bouffe stage. Mr.. Eugene Oudin,
Mr.. John Brand, Mr.. W. II. Hamilton
md Mr.. Harry Paulton. the author o.
Erminie's book, will assume the leading
male parts. 1t is probable that Messrs.
and Cellier will be on hand
or the first performance.
An observant outsider" came down
he m1yble steps Of the Twenty-fourih
Street door CT the Fifth Avenue Hotel
asst evening just after O'Clock. He
EFT like the little chip on the breast of
he big billow. He was jostled and
ossed from side to s;ds by 4 happy,
veil dressed crowd. He may nav
horght there was parade on foot or
ire in progress. But if he had turned
o the left instead OF to the right he
7Ould have followed the crowd 10 the
loors of the little Madison Square